Posted on 01/08/2016 7:59:04 AM PST by mandaladon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates are spending long days on the campaign trail and their nights in a succession of budget hotels, often in small towns. Not Donald Trump.
After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.
In November and December, Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall, flying home each night. His nearest rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, has zigzagged around the state, holding around a dozen town halls and twice as many "meet-and-greet" sessions, and bedding down between stops in hotels.
Trump's determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire often want more personal attention; they feel they play a special role in choosing presidential nominees because their contests are held first.
Trump leads in polls in New Hampshire but he has slipped behind Cruz in Iowa. Cruz has done what U.S. presidential candidates typically do: He has made the state a virtual second home in the run-up to Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus.
This week Cruz is crisscrossing the state in a bus, cruising through small hamlets with stops at a pizza place, coffee house and even a water park.
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I was thinking that having his own plane helped because he can sleep comfortably in it etc.
Traveling commercial would wear a person out.
Still, even with his own plane I still marvel at the stamina at his age.
LOL!!
I think yall are missing the point of this article: it’s not really to criticize trump for sleeping in his opulent home, it’s to criticize him because insisting on doing so is costing him not meeting as many voter one-on-one.
Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall...
This is more then Hillary Clinton and attended by way more people then she will ever see yet they criticize Donald Trump.
My friend.. I was thinking the same exact thing after beginning to read the article.
Flying office. He’s not wasting that time, he’s getting work done.
Changing office & sleep venues daily can be very disruptive. Kudos for him if he’s making enough per hour to make such a run-around cost-effective.
Trump is not ashamed of his wealth. Romney tried too hard to prove he is middle class.
With Trump I am rich, I want others to dream like me.
Agree....hilarious attempt at a hit piece on the guy who is leading in the polls, the HISTORIC GOP frontrunner AND has THOUSANDS attending his rallies.
I’m sure Trump will take this article’s pointless point into consideration. Not!
At least we get a good laugh at this stuff :)
What a beautiful dress. More classy than anything I’ve seen Michelle in.
Voting is a process of neutralizing opposing votes.
If you don’t vote Trump (presuming he’s the nominee), you’re neglecting an opportunity to neutralize a vote for Hillary, giving her a boost. Both may be bad, but which would you rather have?
Spot on.
I’m not one bit ashamed of Trump’s wealth.
I’ve seen much, much larger rallies for Sen. Cruz. Your photos are misleading. I’ve also seen rallies from 2016 for Gov. Romney as massive as anything you’ve shown, and a good bit more. But addressing a speech to a crowd of 5000 or 10000 or 20000 isn’t exactly retail politics.
But I understand. trump’s old. He’ll be going on 71 on inauguration day. Keeping up with the young guys is tough. I’m getting a little on in years, myself, and I like to sleep in my own bed, too, at night.
More like another planet.
Obama always sticks a few minutes of work into his trips so that taxpayers have to pay for the whole thing. I doubt Trump would be that petty.
I kid you not ...
I have stayed in more than one place where no one paid any attention to those signs.
LOL....your post sounds like the moaning of a sore loserman.
Better his own bed than beds Bill Clinton ‘slept’ in Emily Flitter ...
Uncle Lonny’s Clinton bed count:
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - forced himself on her, biting, bruising her
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidation, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcome sexual advance, intimidation
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcome sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet - unwelcome sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcome physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters
And many “orgy island” trips with a pedo who got off on twelve year old children...
Trump has met more voters one-on-one than any other candidate in the race. Probably met more than all other candidates combined.
Plugs Biden goes home every night to Delaware (as I understand it) and is praised by the media. As a thought, what will hamlet-hopping Cruz do after IA. It’s great for the few thousand votes you get, but seeing a lot of his mug in Texas hasn’t gotten him that state’s support.
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